rail off

1. 1.

   separate with a railing

   “rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace”

   Synonymsrail

   Broaderseparate

Questions about rail off

What does rail off mean?

rail off means "separate with a railing".

What is another word for rail off?

Close synonyms include rail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rail off a common word?

rail off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.